I see people constantly recommend the 7700X/7800X3D if you’re primarily gaming and an Intel chip if you’re doing both gaming and productivity tasks. Even I make that recommendation based on the benchmarks I’ve seen.

That got me thinking though. Are there any reasons to get an Intel chip if your primary use case is gaming? I’m not trying to dig at Intel, I genuinely want to know if there’s anything I’ve overlooked about Intel chips regarding their gaming performance and factors around them. Maybe more future proof thanks to the extra cores for when games inevitably start using more cores.

  • SnooPandas2964BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Hmmm well I would say you can more easily build a budget lga1700 system than a budget am5 system.

    There’s the productivity like you already mentioned.

    And yes the 7800x3d is faster in games but its really not that much faster vs the 14900k when you average out a lot of different games at different settings ( like 1-2% )

    Then you have the fact that intels going to be better at multitasking than the 7800x3d. Even if you’re ‘just gaming’ does that mean you don’t have… a browser open, or discord or an antivirus or whatever else at the same time? You’re running on a completely fresh install of windows at all times? I kind of doubt it. Which means you wont get the same numbers as benchmarkers.

    Intel also kind of has a little more of a it just works factor. But I wont belabour the point since I don’t actually own an am5 machine. Just heard a lot of stories of long boot times and ram not working and so on… Just anecdotal…

    But, besides all of that, the 7800x3d is the fastest gaming cpu out there and its not a bad price (way cheaper than 14900k) and its more power efficient under load so, I don’t think you can really go wrong either way.

    But I will say if you think you’re going to decide to go with intel you don’t have to buy 14900k, 14600k or 14700k will do excellent as well. The 14600k is going to provide most of the same gaming performance as well being a good all arounder and cheap. And the 14700k is a good middle ground. And you can save some more money by getting the f model too.